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Tucker Family
Tucker is a surname of disputed origin. Possible derivation of the name The origin of the name is not entirely certain, but since it has a long history as a surname on the continent, as in England and from thereon, also in the United States, it presumably has the same Saxon roots. In England Recorded as both ''Tucker'' and ''Tooker'', the derivation of the English occupational surname comes from the Old English, pre-7th century verb ''tucian'', meaning "to torment". It would have been for a fuller, also known as a "walker", one who softened freshly woven cloth by beating and tramping on it in water. "Tucker" was the usual term in the southwest of England (and South Wales as well), "walker" in the west and north, and "fuller" in the southeast and East Anglia. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of one Baldwin Tuckere in the 1236 Records of Battle Abbey in Sussex. Nevertheless, one should not be too hasty to assign English origin to bearers of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Tucker (other) (1943–2001), Albert Tucker, American basketball player
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Albert Tucker may refer to: *Albert Tucker (politician) (1843–1902), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * Albert W. Tucker (1905–1995), Canadian mathematician *Albert Tucker (artist) (1914–1999), Australian painter *Al Tucker Albert Amos Tucker Jr. (February 24, 1943 – May 7, 2001) was an American professional basketball player. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Tucker is sometimes credited with inventing the alley-oop with his brother Gerald while at Oklahoma Baptist Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alando Tucker
Alando Forest Tucker (born February 11, 1984) is an American former collegiate basketball coach and former professional basketball player who played for the National Basketball Association (NBA). Before joining the NBA, he played college basketball for the University of Wisconsin-Madison men's basketball team, where he became its all-time leading scorer with a total of 2,217 points. From 2007 to 2017, Tucker had a 10-year career in professional basketball which included playing for the Phoenix Suns and Minnesota Timberwolves for three years in the NBA. His last team was the Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Premier League in 2017, before going on retirement. In 2019, he became the interim assistant coach for his alma mater's men's basketball team at UW-Madison, a position he held until April 2021. High school career Tucker attended Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois. He averaged 21.6 points and seven rebounds per game as a junior. He was one of only two juniors to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Tucker
Albert Amos Tucker Jr. (February 24, 1943 – May 7, 2001) was an American professional basketball player. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Tucker is sometimes credited with inventing the alley-oop with his brother Gerald while at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma. College Records With his brother Gerald, Al was recruited from Dayton to Oklahoma Baptist University, where he played 3 seasons. Although he played before the introduction of the 3-point shot, he set a number of records, some of which remain 50 years later. He had 27 rebounds in one game, 2,788 career points, 996 points in a season, 50 points in a game, a 31.1-point season scoring average, a 28.7-point career scoring average, 21 field goals in a game, 365 field goals in one season, 266 free throws in one season, 1,252 rebounds in a career, 467 rebounds in a season. Professional career A 6'8" forward, Tucker played four seasons (1967–1971) in the National Basketball Association and one season (1971–1972) in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Tucker (cricketer)
Adrian Tucker (born 19 September 1969) is an Australian former cricketer. He played 17 first-class matches for New South Wales. He was also part of Australia's squad for the 1988 Youth Cricket World Cup The 1988 McDonald's Bicentennial Youth World Cup was an international cricket tournament played in Australia from 28 February to 13 March 1988. Sponsored by McDonald's, it was the inaugural edition of what is now the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, a .... – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 November 2015. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Tucker
Adrian John Tucker (born 26 September 1976) is a Welsh former professional football goalkeeper who is currently an England national youth football teams' goalkeeping coach. Tucker has previously had two spells as goalkeeper coach at Swansea City AFC (2009-2014, 2018–2019) While also holding the same position at Sunderland AFC (2015-2018) He was part of Swansea City's promotion campaign to the Premier League in 2011 and League Cup win in 2013. Career Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Tucker began his playing career with Torquay United. His debut came in December 1994, during an FA Cup second round replay at home to Enfield, when regular Torquay goalkeeper Ashley Bayes was sent off. A shoulder injury spoiled Tucker's professional career. After leaving Torquay in 1995 he played in the Welsh Premier League and Welsh pyramid system for a number of years and spent 12 years working for the Football Association of Wales in their technical coaching and development department. In October 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Tucker
Adele Evelina Johnson Tucker MBE (8 August 1868 – 4 January 1971) was a Bermudian schoolteacher and trade unionist. She is best known as one of the founders of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, the first registered union on the island. Tucker was born in Warwick Parish, one of eight children born to Catherine and Thomas Tucker. She reputedly grew up in a house built by Hezekiah Frith, an 18th-century privateer. Tucker's father worked as a mason. She left school at the age of 13, a year after her mother's death, in order to assist with the housework. At the age of 18, Tucker found work in Hamilton as an assistant at a school run by Jairus Swan. In 1892, she began attending the Collegiate Institute, a teachers' college run by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She subsequently served as principal of the Edmonson School in Warwick from 1896 to 1901, and then in 1902 took over the Paget Glebe School in Hamilton. She never married, but she and her sisters raised two children that had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Tucker
Abraham Tucker (2 September 1705 – 20 November 1774) was an English country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy. He wrote ''The Light of Nature Pursued'' (1768–1777) under the name of Edward Search. Biography Tucker was born in London of a Somerset family, the son of a wealthy city merchant. His parents died during his infancy, and he was brought up by his uncle, Sir Isaac Tillard. In 1721, he entered Merton College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. He afterwards studied laws at the Inner Temple, but was never called to the bar. This work in turn cites: * James Mackintosh, ''Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy'' (Edinburgh, 1832) * Leslie Stephen, ''English Thought in the 18th Century'', iii, pp. 119–130. In 1727 he bought Betchworth Castle, near Dorking, where he passed the remainder of his life. In 1736 Tucker married Dorothy Barker, daughter of Edward Barker of East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abi Tucker
Abigail Anne "Abi" Tucker (born 22 January 1973) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. She has had roles in television series-telemovies in ''Heartbreak High'' (1994-1995), '' Water Rats'' (1999), '' Wildside'' (1999), ''The Secret Life of Us'' (2001-2003), ''My Husband, my Killer'' (2001), ''McLeod's Daughters'' (2007-2009), ''Giggle and Hoot'' (2010) ABC's ''Playschool'' (2006-2010); and in films ''The New Girlfriend'' (original title: Envy) (1996), ''Angst'' (2000) and ''The Wog Boy'' (2000). Her theatre credits include ''The Vagina Monologues'' (2000), ''Everything's F***ed'' workshop (2003), ''The Music and Lyrics of Sean Peter'' (2003), ''Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson'' (2005), ''Poor Boy – Music of Tim Finn'' (2010) and Bell Shakespeare's '' As You Like It'' (2015). Career Abigail Anne Tucker came to public attention as a singer on the Australian program, New Faces in the early 1990s and in 1994 landed a role in the Australian TV series ''Heartbreak High'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Tucker
Aaron Tucker (born 1982) is a Canadian writer, digital artist, and scholar. He is a lecturer in the English department and a research fellow with the Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University. He received his Ph.D. from the Cinema and Media Arts Department at York University in March 2023, where his graduate work studying the cinema of facial recognition technologies was awarded the Governor General Gold Medal. Life and work Tucker was born in Vernon, British Columbia, and resides and works in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of two novels, three books of poetry, and two academic books. He teaches and researches 3D printing 3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer co ... and other artistic ways of rethinking the relationship between humans and comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Mayo
County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, County Mayo, Mayo, now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority. The population was 137,231 at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census. The boundaries of the county, which was formed in 1585, reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time. Geography It is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by County Galway; on the east by County Roscommon; and on the northeast by County Sligo. Mayo is the third-largest of Ireland's 32 counties in area and 18th largest in terms of population. It is the second-largest of Connacht's five counties in both size and population. Mayo has of coastline, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
